Excessive ferocity due to caution

"Captain, what will happen if these bugs crawl onto our bodies?"

Li Liangchao asked Wang Chui.

Wang Chui took out a bottle of strong liquor from his waist and took a small sip.

"These worms will grow rapidly inside your body, eat your internal organs, and burrow into your brain..."

"But you won't die. While you remain conscious, you'll become a breeding ground for these insects..."

"Until the very end, you watch helplessly as these worms devour your body completely, and your brain explodes from the sheer number of worms..."

"This process will only last about three days."

Upon hearing this, everyone got goosebumps.

No one wants to see their body eaten by a swarm of insects...

This way of dying is simply too unacceptable!

"If someone is accidentally infected with a parasite, is there any way to treat it?"

Although he already knew the answer, Li Liangchao still asked carefully.

Wang Chui replied:

"There are currently no successful cases of treatment."

"Those parasites reproduce so fast... Once they burrow into your body, they start laying eggs like crazy, and these eggs are transported all over your body through your tissue fluid and blood..."

"Therefore, once any parasite is discovered, the military region personnel must first try to isolate it."

"The bodies would be thrown into an incinerator at thousands of degrees Celsius and burned for a whole day."

"There was a case where the person in charge of cremating the bodies was irresponsible and burned them for an hour less, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers... Fortunately, it was brought under control early, otherwise who knows what terrible things might have happened!"

Mentioning these parasitic rains, the faces of Wang Chui and the other three NPCs were filled with lingering fear.

Actually, not many people know about these things.

The military dares not reveal this, as it would cause great panic.

Because of a special electromagnetic shield inside the city, the parasite rain cannot invade the city.

Now that the eight of them have left the city, they must be careful at all times!

Wang Chui sensed that the atmosphere inside the tent was somewhat somber, so he spoke up to comfort everyone.

"You don't need to panic too much. The parasite rain doesn't last long; it usually ends in one to two hours."

"These parasites hiding in the rain will die within three to five minutes without a host."

"As long as there aren't any mutated wild beasts or zombies around, we're safe!"

He had barely finished speaking when a chilling scream rang out from afar:

"Hah—"

The others tensed up at the sound, and Wang Chui felt a chill run down his spine.

Damn it!

Is the world really that malicious towards me?

"Lights out!"

Although Wang Chui was a jinx, he was one of the best veterans in the city and had a very fast reaction time. Before the sound had completely disappeared, he was the first to turn off his flashlight.

The crowd followed closely behind.

In an instant, the tent became pitch black.

All that could be heard was the slightly heavy breathing of the crowd.

"Captain... I have a suggestion, though it may be premature."

Skinny Fang Jiandu gently nudged Wang Chui beside him.

"What suggestion?"

Seeing everyone looking at him, Fang Jianju said very seriously:

"My advice is... don't make promises you can't keep."

The other six people also nodded with serious expressions.

Wang Chui coughed twice.

Everyone's attention was focused on the outside, and Zhao Yi even activated his Evil Eye in such a dark environment.

"There are sixteen mutated zombies..."

Li Liangchao began to use his special reconnaissance abilities.

Zhao Yi added:

"There are also sixty-six mutated hyenas."

Li Liangchao glanced at Zhao Yi unexpectedly.

Wang Chui and his three companions also stared meaningfully at Zhao Yi and his group.

"No wonder the general asked us to bring you four green recruits... It seems you are indeed capable."

"But don't worry... after these hyenas mutated under the influence of the Black Disaster, their sense of smell, sight, and hearing have all deteriorated severely."

"They use heat to determine the direction of their prey."

The group wore specially made clothing that shielded them from heat. To the hounds, they were no different from stones as long as they didn't move.

The group huddled inside the tent, clutching their guns tightly, and could hear each other breathing.

To say I'm not nervous would be a lie.

With ample ammunition, killing these hounds and zombies is a piece of cake.

But if they fight in the rain, they will also be parasitized by the parasite rain. At that time, except for a very few, they can only wait to die!

Time passed second by second.

The zombies didn't walk towards the group, but many hunting dogs were roaming around and getting closer and closer...

Suddenly, a hunting dog seemed to have keenly sensed something.

It slowly walked towards the tent where Zhao Yi and the others were...

The others held their breath.

I didn't dare to breathe.

They were afraid the dog would spot them and cause a lot of trouble...

As the dog drew closer, even the viewers in the players' live streams couldn't help but feel tense.

"Wow!"

"Is this dog fake? Did the system deliberately send it here?"

"Does it think it looks cool walking around here alone as a dog?"

"I bet five packs of spicy strips that they're all gone."

"Danger!"

As expected, the thing everyone feared most came to pass...

The mutated hyena arrived outside the tent where everyone was.

Although it was not infected with parasites, its body was covered with pustules, and its head was split open from the middle!

This dog is exceptionally good and intelligent.

Before its companions even realized there were people inside the tent, it had already learned to use its paws to start pulling at the tent's zipper.

Before long, its sharp, barbed claws got caught on the zipper loop.

stab-

The tent's zipper had a small hole opened.

But what awaited it was not food.

Instead, it is a sharp scalpel.

It pierced its throat directly.

The mutated dog couldn't make a sound at all; it just collapsed in front of the tent...

Tentacles slowly grew from its body...

Upon seeing these tentacles, the parasites in the nearby raindrops stopped trying to burrow into the tent and began frantically scattering in all directions...

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Yi dragged the mutated hyena's carcass into the tent.

After confirming there were no parasites, Zhao Yi recalled the raider and excitedly began gesturing at the hyena's corpse...

The seven people standing beside him looked at him with an inexplicable eeriness in their eyes...

PS:

This is the first update. It's a bit late today because there was an unexpected incident when I went for a CT scan this afternoon, and the scan couldn't be done.